Thats interesting. Because I like sending postcards too, BTW check http://openbangalore.org/postbox/ Will make the data available as csv soon.
Thej -- Thejesh GN | ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎನ್ http://thejeshgn.com GPG ID : 0xBFFC8DD3C06DD6B0 On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Venkatraman S <[email protected]> wrote: > Similarly... > > Am a philatelist and recently stumbled on this : > http://www.postcrossing.com/ > Click on 'More Stats' on the 'Postcrossing Stats' section on your right - > not much, but so much can be done! > > -Venkat > https://twitter.com/venkasub > > On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Thejesh GN <[email protected]> wrote: > >> It will be interesting to see how books travel and if there are any >> human stories that data can tell. >> >> >> If you dont know what bookCrossing is >> http://www.bookcrossing.com/about >> It's the World's Library. It's a smart social networking site. It's a >> celebration of literature and a place where books get new life. >> BookCrossing is the act of giving a book a unique identity so, as the book >> is passed from reader to reader, it can be tracked and thus connecting its >> readers. There are currently *1,493,211 BookCrossers* and * >> 9,423,729 books* travelling throughout*132 countries*. Our community is >> changing the world and touching lives one book at a time. >> >> DATA >> >> Collected by Cai-Nicolas Ziegler in a 4-week crawl (August / September >> 2004) from the Book-Crossing <http://www.bookcrossing.com/> community >> with kind permission from Ron Hornbaker, CTO of Humankind >> Systems<http://www.humankindsystems.com/>. >> Contains 278,858 users (anonymized but with demographic information) >> providing 1,149,780 ratings (explicit / implicit) about 271,379 books. >> >> http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~cziegler/BX/ >> >> >> Thej >> -- >> Thejesh GN | ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎನ್ >> http://thejeshgn.com >> GPG ID : 0xBFFC8DD3C06DD6B0 >> >> -- >> For more details about this list >> http://datameet.org/discussions/ >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "datameet" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> >> >> > > -- > For more details about this list > http://datameet.org/discussions/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "datameet" group. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > > > -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected].
